Contest Entry or ME

Below is the poem entitled Contest Entry or ME which was written by poet
Eileen
Manassian. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.

Contest Entry or ME

Will you only read my work
If for a contest entry?
Or will you because you love
The poetess that is ME?
Do you only check my rhymes,
When I decide to compete?
Or do you just read my lines
Cause you want a tasty treat?
I read, for I love your words
I simply love who you are!
I read, you see, for to me
You’re a luminescent star!
Of course contests can be fun
It gives us a little edge
But some poets can be shy
They peek from behind the hedge
So try out the “normal” ones
That ones that witness of life
Of those precious daily things
Yet with love and passion rife
I quarry these little rhymes
From my heart at times like stone
I squeeze them out soaked with blood
When it has a flesh like tone
Some of them may seem ho hum
Others pretty much mundane
Contest or not, they are me
Passionate and quite insane!
Eileen Manassian Ghali

I'm a fan of your work too, Caleb. You know that. A sentence, a word, a memory, a pic, a pain, a hurt, a dream..........the inspiration hits at anytime and sometimes I can't get it down fast enough. Wondering is fun....isn't it! ;) Thanks for the visit, my dear. All the best!

insane, mums the word.... but, I love every one of your poems, mostly I love the rhymes you are squeezing out of you... Eileen, the answer to your poem is a tough one... LOL... just kidding, I want to say i search for your tasty words, but we are girls... ;-) so that would sound wrong coming from me. anyways, your poem is very cute and drift-ty and I mean that in a nice way... I love the way you took me in with the flow of your words and wonder... xox~ Linda,

Thanks for keeping it under wraps, PD! ;) Although I do think everyone knows by now! HA HA! Wow! Glad to know that you read my writes, my dem ar. Tasty words can be said by both gender, I think, so don't worry! ;) I'm so glad that you stopped y and left such a encourging post . Take caek

I read BOTH kinds, contest entries and not contest entries and I love all our options. I'm really glad to know that you are honestly reading our works. I feel like some people are not doing it, and that is disheartening to me. Glad to have someone like you here at soup.

I do too, Andrea....but mostly the poems that come from the heart. I don't mean to say that those for the contest are not inspired, but those that are not bound to contest rules are more free flowing from the heart. Thanks for stopping by. I love it here!

in soup Eileen, one gets to know one through their words, well i try anyway,, but i'm a shy one also, but i know one thing and that is you are not insane, and even if you were, nothing would change, i love what you write!

:) Oh Harry...bless you for being such a fine gentleman! Thanks for the visit and kind words.....It means so much to me coming from you, Harry. :) You know you are one of my FAVS...Very few in that folder, but you are certainly there! :)

Eileen, what an interesting idea for a poem. I try to read poems from the new poems list as much as possible. It doesn't matter to me if its for a contest or not. By the way, I like this poem! Love, Kim

i think all the contests have to be taken with a grain of salt (or a margarita!). i hope people don't read only poems that are written for contests, because that would be a shame. i try not to let it bother me when i don't place well (or at all) in a contest - different strokes for different folks. i enjoy all of your poetry, contest or not!

Knew I could count on you, my dear. It's just that I've noticed that when something IS for a contest, I do get more views. Curiosity, of course...Natural! I'm selective myself, so....how care I complain. I read my favorite poets, and if a newcomer reads something of mine and posts a comment, I visit and leave one too. No time in the world to read everything so..Yes...I'm developing a think skin where contests are concerned...With my track record...I've GOTTA! ;)

To read or not to read?
That is NOT a question!
Whether it is... written for a contest or not, is irrelevant to me, for in either case, it is written by you! Therefore to...read is the answer for the quality of the poem is certain!

OK...RATS! 7 I didn't place in! :( Joined a grand total of 17...pretty bad, eh? Two first places...two second places...one fifth place...one 8th place...and one honorable mention! That is the sum total of my Contest history!!!! Oh well, Richard....you like me, right?

Hmmmmmmm.....now how do I react to that comment, Mr Seal???? Hmmmmm....Lord, give me grace. I wish I could say it's because I rarely join contests. Well, that IS true...Only started joining recently. However, there are one or two...Ok maybe 3 or 4 that I DID join and didn't even PLACE! ;) Interestingly enough, my two wins were from MALE poets...Hmmmm...I'm building a theory here! Will see if it is true. So...I have joined a few of late...and being rarely mentioned does have a bit of a sting,...I will bear with you, Mr Seal, even though you're have BRIT!

Richard....I will take your word for it. Sometimes I wonder...it seems that only my friends find me work interesting, and I think that is because they have come to know me...as a person, and not because of the "beauty" of what I write. I don't know....my mind wanders. This post from you is worth the effort, for as you are fully aware...you are one of my fav favorites! :) Ok, I just coined a new phrase! :) Thanks for lifting my spirit. When I don't get a visit from you...something is definitely amiss!

I really loved reading this dynamic and rhythmic write here my friend! I love the lines, "Others pretty much mundane...Contest or not, they are me...Passionate and quite insane!" Those lines or so very awesome Eileen! I enjoyed reading this delightful poem this morning! What a powerful piece, such an outstanding poem, Great Work!!

I know you're passionate my little Desert Orchid and I'd guessed the other a while back lol. Just a point on your use of the word 'quite', are you meaning it in the context of totally or completely maybe, or in this instance could it be lovingly. Take care, Richard

Why Richard....the use is the one that you so carefully explained to me! I was going to write a line at the end of that one and say...HEY RICHARD! ;) Or type it in bold...but here you are...quick as a button. It is the definition you English Englishmen give to this delightful intensifier....That's the grammatical term for it, my dear!